This is the nice return. Ampl:tude come up with their third album, showing their face again on Sinnbusrecords. Once more, they kick off the handicrafts fuzz. Once more, they combine current and harmonic glee into fine electric jingles. recorded quickly and lively in their own studio, »Der Igel An Der Orgel« shines with sparing discoisms and the friendly squeaks of waveforms. There is top fun and there is a little cat. all this will rumble, shiver and party near good people from january 26th, 2007.

The heart in laser light. Ampl:tude are back, creating once more what no one creates like them: The jolly dancefloor ruckus and the private top moment in one breath, electrocore fuss and loveliness in one room. They call their third album »Der Igel an der Orgel«, and for the third time they make a dreamy pool of instruments produce ideas, sounds and songs. These go in all directions, yet always hand in hand. Listen to the keyboard, the MS20, the piano, the computer and the sounds, thinking aloud about life, music, friendly animals and moving together. And watch them dance to the sound of thought.

The nintendo pope in the easy chair. The trancenation coffee table. Ampl:tude join stuff with stuff. And whereas »Auf Hören« tried a cinemascope approach, the new record goes for a charming sketchiness and a sloppy passion that gives heart and soul to its hits and its super songs. There is a tension crackling between family music and nervous club references, discharging in many beautiful sparks. Let your eyes and ears and dancing feet decide which spark is the loveliest. Is it the lopsided opening preset party »Onkel Uhu ist Krank«? The deceptively idyllic new morning of »Darin ist Er der Größte«? The suprising »Top Fun« upsy-daisy? Or could it be »Die kleine Katze« - the little Timbaland cat?

Zbigniew Libera on the toy piano. Ampl:tude have hidden stories and histories inbetween beats and synthie saw. The four Four's intertext pool conceals its tricky shallows under a pretty clarity. And neither the lack of neon signs, nor the absence of a monstrous sense of mission makes them less treacherous. And then and yet, again and again, Ampl:tude are the nice and friendly puzzle band, the Lone Gunmen in their common-time-boat, coming to pull you out of the sea of references by your hair, and to send you off to the dance floor with a friendly pat.

The hedgehog on the organ. Ampl:tude keep their third creation short and concise. Rhythms, hits and follies happily take turns being front pig, modesty, ferocity. These are some of the best Ampl:tude songs ever. These are space trip impressions, new inventions and by-products of world domination research. We love it.